I am Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, Senior Advisor for Entitlement Reform and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation, General Counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. I served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush. I am a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb (New York: Harper Collins, 2011).
I write about new, cutting edge ideas regarding public policy, particularly concerning economics.

As The Earth Cools, Obama's Still Distracted By A Fraudulent Warming Narrative

Governments the world over, including the world government wannabe United Nations, have a direct personal stake in global warming and the grossly expanded power that would bring to them. For that reason, there never was, and never is going to be, any conclusion from anything the UN does other than that global warming threatens to destroy all life on the planet unless the UN is granted globally dominant money and power.

Added to that is the money interest of crony capitalist, corporate welfare queens, who get to play like big business corporate moguls at taxpayer expense with “green” government money. For those literally invested in the ancient technology of windmills, the fantasy concept of solar power running the modern economy, electric cars, biofuels, etc., there never is going to be any consideration for any point of view other than their corporate gravy train must continue, or everyone is going to die. Too much of “climate science” today is based on essentially the same interest, money and personal glory for supporting the “politically correct” science. So don’t tell me about what the Big Science bureaucracies believe. They believe what they are paid to believe. Tell me about some science any where that shows there really is anything to CAGW. Rebut Climate Change Reconsidered (which you can’t do without reading it).

Can you see now why the whole catastrophic anthropogenic global warming fantasy really is just Lysenkoism all over again?

But for jobs, middle class wages and incomes, and the American economy, what is needed is low cost, reliable energy, stemming from the results of free market competition. Any regulation, renewable energy standard, corporate welfare, or other intervention that raises energy costs unnecessarily is a counterproductive tax on the economy, jobs, and middle class wages and incomes (and the wages and incomes of almost everyone else). Wind power and solar power that are more expensive than the conventional energy sources that free market competition has chosen, and that need conventional power besides as a back up for when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine, is only going to further reduce jobs, middle class wages and incomes, and the American standard of living. Any green, corporate welfare subsidy to prop up such “alternative” energy sources is only a direct tax that is going to do the same thing.

But if you think that the traditional, American standard of living, and prosperity, is an excessive, “embarrassment of riches,” then the economic decline of America is a happy result for you, even while the rest of us may rightly consider that viewpoint to be treason.

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